Ian Sparke is producing and the international sales agent, the UK’s Manifest Film Sales/Intandem Films, will pitch the project at the American Film Market in November. Cutting Edge Brisbane will handle the post and VFX work.

SparkeFilms is a full production service for military and period based films, comprising production, costume and make-up designers, military advisers, set decorators and props.

The Sparkes are in advanced development on WW1 drama The 34th Battalion, which follows a bunch of young recruits from Maitland in rural New South Wales who joined the Australian Army’s 34th Battalion in the lead-up to the epic battle to save the French town of Villers-Bretonneux in 1918. Luke will direct, Ian will produce and both collaborated on the screenplay.